ITALIAN LITERATURE

Knowledge and understanding: Knowledge of the fundamental elements of Italian literature; acquisition of philological research methodologies and literary criticism methodologies, with a special focus on the ability to analyse literary texts critically.

Applying knowledge and understanding: Ability to consider literary texts critically; ability to connect elements of one’s own culture with those of other cultures; ability to orient oneself within the printed and online bibliography; ability to link competences in an interdisciplinary fashion.

Making judgements: Critical ability to combine literary competences acquired in an interdisciplinary fashion and to interpret different sociolinguistic and cultural domains from both a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.

Communication skills: Ability to present the results of one’s study in complex ways; ability to discuss literary contents effectively and critically.

Learning skills: Development of autonomous learning skills in studying the literary materials of the course with the aim of interacting with diverse interlocutors and in different working environments.

The lectures will be supplemented by exercises and tests in progress and, if possible, by seminars with other teachers.

1) Analysis of the literary text.

2) Dante seven hundred years after his death: Dante's actuality; the lyrics; the 11th canto of the "Paradise".

3) Leopardi's opera.

4) The italian novel and power in the nineteenth century.

1) L. Chines-C. Varotti, Che cos’è un testo letterario, Carocci.

2) A. Casadei, Dante, il Saggiatore; D. Alighieri, chosen texts from Vita nuova (on Studium); D. Alighieri, Divina Commedia. Paradiso, the 11th canto (Oscar Mondadori, A. Chiavacci Leonardi ed.).

3) P. V. Mengaldo, Antologia leopardiana. La poesia, Carocci (ten lyrics chosen.

4)

• Italian novel in the XIX century: I promessi sposi; the historic novels after Manzoni; the novels of the Risorgimento; the novels and the tales of Scapigliatura; Nievo and the Risorgimento memorials; Collodi, De Amicis and the italian novele after 1860; Verga and the Verism; D’Annunzio as novelist).
• Giuseppe Traina, Sguardi del potere e sguardi sul potere nell’Ottocento italiano, Rubbettino
• Three novels chosen among:
  • Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi, BUR Rizzoli (F. De Cristofaro ed.);
  • Carlo Bini, Manoscritto di un prigioniero, Sellerio or Quodlibet;
  • Carlo Collodi, Le avventure di Pinocchio, Feltrinelli or Einaudi;
  • Edmondo De Amicis, Cuore, Einaudi or BUR Rizzoli;
  • Paolo Valera, La folla, Greco e Greco or Lampi di Stampa;
  • Giovanni Cena, Gli ammonitori, Marcovalerio.